WWE STAR VACATES CHAMPIONSHIP

In the fallout from the WWE Draft and injury likely playing a part too, a championship has just been vacated in NXT.

The WWE Draft saw a total of 18 NXT superstars drafted to either Raw or SmackDown, and tonight’s May 2 NXT featured a lot of fallout from that.

Specifically, in the closing segment of the show NXT Women’s Champion Indi Hartwell announced that she was vacating the championship before moving to Raw.

Indi Hartwell suffered a legitimate injury in retaining the championship against Tiffany Stratton and Roxanne Perez last week.

Indi Hartwell announced she was vacating the title and was then carried out of the arena by her storyline husband Dexter Lumis, who she will be reuniting with on Raw, and probably reuniting with Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae as well.

After Indi Hartwell and Dexter Lumis left, much of the NXT women’s roster stormed the ring and the show went off the air with a massive brawl.

There will be a tournament to determine the new champion which will culminate at Battleground on May 28 2023.

The brawl featured most of the women on the roster, but the focal points were Tiffany Stratton, Cora Jade and Roxanne Perez.

In another draft-related championship move, Isla Dawn and Alba Fyre (drafted to SmackDown) kept their NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship against Kayden Carter and Katana Chance (drafted to Raw) on last night's show.

As a result, WWE has said that Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn are “taking” the championship to SmackDown, but there’s a lack of clarity on what that’ll mean going forward.